package com.thinkbiganalytics.metadata.api.jobrepo.job;

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/**
 * Represents a key/value store for data captured during the Job execution
 */
public interface BatchJobExecutionContextValue {

    /**
     * Return a unique id for this record
     *
     * @return the unique id of this context value
     */
    String getId();

    /**
     * Return the property key name to capture
     *
     * @return The property key name to capture
     */
    String getKeyName();

    /**
     * Return the reference back to the job execution id
     *
     * @return the reference back to the job execution id
     * @see BatchJobExecution
     */
    Long getJobExecutionId();

    /**
     * Return the value of this context item
     *
     * @return the value of this  context item
     */
    String getStringVal();
}
